Trivia 2025 Winners: Stupid and Sterile
Trivia 2025 last place: Don't B LAST
Trivia Night 2025
ASM VIC committee at the ASM National Meeting Adelaide 2025
ASM Vic Branch Undergraduate Awardees (L-R) - Charles Ma, Raynae Gilmartin, Willow Eustace, Chih-Ning (Jeanette) Yang, and Tess Hayes
ASM Vic Branch Awardees - Ashleigh Kropp and Chris Connor
NFTH June 2025 - Early Career Awardee Lillian Haines
MEEM - May 2025
Isabelle Gemmell, “Early Career Microbiology Scientist” prize winner - NFTH July 2024
Nancy Millis Awards Night 2024
Undergraduate Student Prize Winners 2024
Nancy Millis Awardee Hugh Cottingham, Nancy Millis Runner Up Sara Di Simone, and ASM Vic Branch Awardee Georgie Gilmore with 2024 ASM Vic Branch chair A/Prof Steve Petrovski
Nancy Millis Awardee Hugh Cottingham and ASM Vic Branch chair A/Prof Steve Petrovski
Inaugural Microbial Mixer January 2024
Trivia 2023 Winners
Trivia 2023 2nd place
Trivia 2023 3rd place
Trivia 2023 equal 4th place
Trivia 2023 equal 4th place
Trivia 2023 5th place
Trivia 2023 6th place
Trivia 2023 7th place
2023 ECR Awardee Emily Gulliver at ASM National 2023, taking home the ASM ECR prize!
Inaugural ECR Awardee Emily Gulliver 2023
Undergraduate Student Awardees 2023
Committee meeting over zoom
2020 Victorian ASM Branch Award winner (Ashleigh Rogers) and her supervisor, Prof Dena Lyras
2020 ASM Nancy Millis Award winner, Marion Bichet, and her supervisor, Dr Jeremy Barr
ASM Vic Branch Christmas party: waiting for guests to arrive
ASM Vic Branch Christmas party at the Crafty Squire
Winner of the 2019 Microbial Art Prize, Gene Drendel, receiving certificate from Mary Valcanis (Deputy Chair, ASM Vic Branch)
Awardees from our Nancy Millis Awards night. Left to right: Marion Bichet (ASM Nancy Millis Awardee), Ashleigh Rogers (Victorian ASM branch awardee), and A/Prof Karena Waller (Immediate Past Chair, ASM Vic Branch)
Back-to-Back (2018/2019) winner for our Microbial Art Prize, Gene Drendel
2018 Microbial Art Prize
Growth of fungal colonies isolated from soil and grown on Rose Bengal Agar. Photo shows differing colony morphology and droplets of fungal exudates - Gene Drendel, La Trobe University
Committee meeting with a very welcome guest, Prof Julian Rood (Chair, NEQB)
2019 Microbial Art Prize
Growth pattern of a Bacillus mycoides colony grown from a single spot as it spreads across an agar plate - Gene Drendel, La Trobe University
2020 Microbial Art Prize
Lysis of a Blockteria by Polydron-phage - Jen Wood, La Trobe University, and Adam Wood
2020 Microbial Art Prize Runners Up
Left: Metalwork Phage - Charlotte Grazebrook (Monash University)
Top: Your Oral Microbes - Samantha Byrne, University of Melbourne
Kombucha Mother - Jacqulyn Evans, La Trobe University
AusME24 Vic Branch Award Winner: Jessica Owen
Trivia last place: 3 1/2 Asians
AIMS "Young Scientist Award 2024" Winner: Mikayla Kingston
Trivia Second Place: We pneu that
Trivia 3rd place: Zahra's disciples
Trivia winners: McDoing Better